armand schaubroeck steals

would you buy a used amplifier from mr. schaubroeck ? Hell. I would too. In fact, I would sooner buy direct from Armand than fill in the paperwork at House of Guitars, Inc. Let’s all do our level best to keep said Rochester hoodlum in the style he’s grown accustomed to. These days.My buddy, Gus

fight the power

public enemy (top): paint on audio cassettes by sami havia.“There it Is“, the second contracted LP release for Polydor, on the back of a distribution package encompassing Brown’s King Records and People imprint, is something of an improvement on “Hot Pants“; notable only for the title track reworking of his supercharged 1971 smash hit.A prequel,

picasso ist blau

rude faust. so far sosna good. Written by Rudolf Sosna. Werner “Zappi” Diermaier : drums;Hans Joachim Irmler : organ;Jean-Hervé Péron : bass;Rudolf Sosna: guitar and keyboards;Gunter Wüsthoff: saxophone, synthesizer. Recorded at Wumme, March 1972.Produced by Uwe Nettelbeck.Engineered by Kurt Graupner. ▼ FAUST: MAMIE IST BLAU from “So Far” LP (Polydor) 1972 (Germany)

needles, pins. more needles

tales from the ripped, y’hear ? “The word punk goes back to the 1960’s… I remember getting copies of NME in the summer of ’75 and they were calling AC/DC, the Bay City Rollers and Eddie and the Hot Rods punk rock. I remember seeing a big article on Eddie and the Hot Rods saying,

the elusive maestro of woodstock

Injecting just a little warmth into “Creep in the Cellar” this frosty afternoon. Kermit the Frog. Or. Everybody’s favourite commonwealth daddy. His only #1 hit single; featuring the vocal talents of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. You can beat on Taylor all you like. Personally, I admire a lot of his songs. To say nothing

clash like lightnin’, crash like t’under

Predating the Gussie Clarke produced debut for Trojan, “Screaming Target“, this infectious slice of roots (aka “S.90 Skank“) was originally released as a 45 on the Mafia, Down Town imprint; produced by Keith Hudson, a dentist by profession and an impresario by choice. The single proved so popular in Jamaican dance halls that it promptly

seige mentality

elephant and castle tube station, london, at the height of the blitz. This is a somewhat lazy post, drawn as it is from a comment left earlier over on the excellent Eighty Thousand Times The Word “Fuck”: “I don’t know. There’s been a lot of people sniffing and sneezing in the lifts here of late.

you what ?

BELL 1216 B. From the cruel and unusal dream tag team of Paul Gadd and Mike Leander; quite possibly the most perfect three minutes of proto punk ever committed to vinyl. Cheap and spectacularly nasty.▼ GARY GLITTER: ROCK AND ROLL, PART 2 from “Rock And Roll Part 1 b/w Rock And Roll Part 2” 45

dirt wreck tree

photograph by manfred schweda. From a previous post featuring Sandy, the first – proper – which kicked off this blog:“By the time of his fourth release in 1972, the last cut for Vanguard, Sandy was already deep in the grip of a heroin habit and the industry suits were at a loss as to how

lucid ardor

ar•dent |ˌɑːd(ə)nt|adjectiveenthusiastic or passionate : an ardent baseball fan | an ardent suitor. See note at eager .• archaic or poetic/literary burning; glowing : the ardent flames. DERIVATIVESar•dent•ly adverb ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French ardant, from Latin ardens, ardent -, from ardere ‘to burn.’It’s snowing again. And all I can see are the

green

Slide guitar by Bill Homans. Between the 1972 Presidential election and the breaking rains of the Watergate scandal, Vietnam veteran, Bill Homans and his brother, Peter recorded ten songs with a bunch of friends and financed a small print run in the hope of courting the attentions of a major label. It never happened. The

wainright’s gentlemen

A Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman concoction. Starting out with good intentions as a soul outfit – Wainright’s Gentlemen, in 1965, featuring one Ian Gillan – Connolly, Priest and Tucker soon stopped off at the Sweetshop and filled up on plenty of bubblegum. Glam without the glamour; just a heap of alcohol abuse and rampant

i. begg your pardon ?

TRLS 189. I am not sure on which label this early Big Youth – Manley Augustus Buchanen – production first appeared; it features prominently on several Trojan compilations chronicling the period 1972-1976, but it definitely predates 1973’s “Screaming Target“. It very possibly first appeared under the title “Ace 90 Skank” as a 7″ on the

sing-a-long-with-tricky-dickie

RR 1272. It seems a tad obvious, granted. Issued on December 20th, 1972, this was the Residents’ festive ever self release on Ralph Records. 500 copies in total, deliberately misnumbered with their silk-screened sleeves hand-folded and glued flat before the varnish had the opportunity to dry. “Santa Dog’s a Jesus foetus… has no presence, has

from pillar to post…

you can’t make an omelette without turning up the heat. Further to my ongoing dispute with Scottish Power – this nation’s biggest electricity provider – here is a brief update. Currently, for every £17 I am paying directly into my pre-payment service, I am receiving 39p of power. Despite my paying £1,560 over the past

wh@ck the dudes, now…

“And Wendy’s stealing clothes from marks & sparks And Freddy’s got spots from ripping off the starsfrom his face… funky little boat race.” David Bowie. Well. The DMCA strikes again. This article originally appeared on 22/08/08. It is reprinted here in its entirety, sans an expanded verse or two from Bowie’s lyric and – what

percy the park keeper

“percy” by eliot. This was my son’s interpretation of “Percy the Park Keeper“, aged five, in his first year at school. I had to take it down off my wall to scan it. Here, Percy resembles a park keeper just as they ought to be. More fittingly than any I have ever seen, certainly. Even

crossing the reed sea [of weeds]

Exodus 13-15: “crossing of the reed sea” by cosimo rosselli, 1439 – 1507. fresco (1481-2); sistine chapel, vatican city. “Schilfmeer“, translated as Reed Sea, or Red Sea. Culled from a compilation of early Popol Vuh recordings – with a vaguely unsettling old testament motif – between 1971 and 1974, released on the italian Cicada label

vote for miles

There. That was easy, wasn’t it, brothers and sisters ? Oh, shit. Is there a doctor in the house ? Engineered by Stan Tonkel and Russ Payne. Additional musicians include: Herbie Hancock; Chick Corea; Jack DeJohnette; John McLaughlin; Billy Hart; Collin Walcott; Dave Liebman; Badal Roy; Badal Roy; Carlos Garnett. “It is, in fact, pretty

got to scrape the shit right off your shoe

“Wadin’ through the waste, stormy winter, And there’s not a friend to help you through. Tryin’ to stop the waves behind your eyeballs, Drop your reds, drop your greens and blues. Thank you for your wine, California, Thank you for your sweet and bitter fruits. Yes, I got the desert in my toenail And I